2092 11 6
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Your opal eyesYour sea-blue eyesYour sky-blue eyesYour ice-blue eyesYour gray-blue eyes, your periwinklesYour hazel eyesYour violet eyes(almond-shaped and almost cubist)Your indigo eyesYour topaz eyes, your sunkissed lashesYour turtle-sundae eyes.I loved your black shiny…
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1770 12 9
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870 15 8
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angels and lambs
drunkards and whores
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1846 11 9
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strumming on the pipe/blowing on the lute's body/drumming on the horn.
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3374 13 8
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... honestly, the dishes were just tired. Too few in number and washed too often, they dreamed of an escape -- any escape, really -- from the endless cycle of hot water and being racked together to dry ...
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2086 22 9
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You don't make money worrying about other people's feelings. I learned that from my father at an early age. He managed rental properties, which I, his daughter, now own. He wanted a son, so I became one.
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1669 13 9
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2026 17 6
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Every time I read a great line by another writer, I feel fear.
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1370 11 9
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Listening is loving.
What is more erotic than
these fathoms, skeins, words,
roping tight the ardent ear.
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1407 14 10
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Microscopic purposes emerged//
with their combinations and permutations
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3770 11 8
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Lisa Duncan's mom was puffy, and you could always see part of her breasts.
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3732 10 6
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A new constellation in the sweet hereafter.
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1446 10 10
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not of time, but of all the clocks/
that tick along toward the end/
of all the possibilities.
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1998 13 8
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Heaven’s a blast! It’s like a big summer camp in space...We are the weavers of the tie-dyed sky.
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5842 1 1
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Oryn Zentharis accomplished many things in her life. She completed her greatest desires with a driving force and believed anything was possible.
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1724 10 9
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"Lately I've been thinking a baby's the only way I might be able to hang on to you."
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1200 13 9
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Every year I have a birthday, and every year
another of my friends succumbs to cancer or suicide.
That's
a shitty gift. That is devoutly not to be wished.
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1421 15 8
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I paid the doctor / You paid the doctor
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1043 13 9
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1896 14 9
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It's eerie. There are no birds. My friend and I take our morning walk in a bubble of silence.
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1658 13 5
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The javelin was cancelled after the unfortunate incident with Mrs Parker last year, but no one could have predicted this year’s sack race tragedy.
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1491 21 7
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Once, asked what time it was, M. replied, "Eternity."
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1234 9 8
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Sometimes, you compare your living situation to a prison because it makes you feel better. "At least I have a fridge," you think to yourself.
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1567 11 9
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My wife is making lunch. I suggest leftover pizza. We are going over to the neighbor’s house for pizza tonight, my wife says. I tell her that’s okay. I like pizza.
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1438 15 9
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How they all beat the small drum/
of the word within the world
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1531 10 9
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Four Quartets is a slender book which/
can be read with intensity in its entirety
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1462 18 9
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1459 19 8
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A proper study of human history should
lead the student to an inescapable desire
to commit suicide
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1281 12 9
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...it was moving toward me from an oblique angle somewhere behind, steadily, relentlessly.
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194 13 9
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